How to install and use the Windows NT Named Pipe Input Plugin
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1. Copy the ntpipe plugin to the SW/Inputs folder
2. Start the Rip and create channels as required from the Input Manager.

Configuring the plugin
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The plugin allows two parameters to be configured from the Input
Manger dialog box as described below. In most cases it will not
be necessary to change the default values.

1) Pipe Prefix
   This is used by the input plugin to create the name of the
   pipe which will be published. The plugin takes the string
   typed into the dialog and places "\\.\PIPE\" before it and
   "\<channelname>" after it. By default the names of the pipes
   have the form \\.\PIPE\Scriptworks\Channel\<channelName> where
   <channelName> is the name of the input channel as specified in
   the input manager. It can be seen from the above description
   that this string must not be blank (or null) as this would
   result in an invalid pipename being generated.

2) Pipe Instances
   NT allows a named pipe to have a number of instances. This
   means that for each pipe of a given name NT will allow more
   than one client to open the pipe at one time. The plugin
   can then service the clients in sequence, one at a time.
   Some clients, eg ColorCentral expect to be always able to
   connect to a named pipe. For this reason 2 pipe instances
   (the default) should be created. This allows the client software
   to reconnect to the pipe, inorder to send the next job, while
   ScriptWorks finishes processing the previous job.

